To provide for principles recognised by the State as governing the affairs of military veterans and for policy objectives in this regard; the President to be Patron-in-Chief of all military veterans; benefits relating to military veterans; the establishment of the Advisory Council on Military Veterans and the Military Veterans Appeal Board; and certain functions of the Department of Military Veterans; and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:—